Coronavirus

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken custody of DHFL promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan in Satara said Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh here Sunday. Local police in Satara district had extended all cooperation to the central probe agency, the minister said. The...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with chief ministers via video conference Monday morning. This is to find a way ahead in the fight against the novel coronavirus, amid indications that the discussions could also focus on a graded exit from the ongoing...

New Delhi: As enterprises, governments and small and medium businesses (SMBs) learn to adjust to the new normal, organisations will fully commit to Cloud-based flexibility in the near future - from embracing a hybrid multi-cloud design and shifting to ‘as a service strategy to leveraging...

Washington: Indian-American nonprofit, Indiaspora has raised $1 million to fight hunger among vulnerable populations affected by the coronavirus pandemic in in the US and India, it was reported. Its 'Chalogive for COVID-19' initiative met its initial goal of $1 million, just 10 days after its...

  New Delhi: Big-hitting West Indies opener Chris Gayle has said India spinner Yuzvendra Chahal is ‘very annoying’ on social media. Gayle also said that he is going to block him. Chahal is one of the busiest India cricketers on social media. With the coronavirus-forced...

Wuhan: The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province where the coronavirus pandemic originated last December, has dropped to zero, a health official said Sunday. The result was achieved with the hard efforts of medical workers in Wuhan and those...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that his daily coronavirus press briefings are not worth his ‘time and effort’. He said that the ‘lamestream’ media asks nothing but ‘hostile’ questions. This reaction came days after Trump intense rebuke for an opinion. He had suggested...

Berhampur: Amid the COVID induced lockdown, teachers of Podamari Primary School under Sanakhemundi block of Ganjam district have been distributing textbooks at the doorsteps of students on a loading-rickshaw. Led by Sadasiba Padhi, the headmaster of Podamari Primary School, the teachers have been pulling this...

Bhubaneswar: Four districts of Odisha, that earlier had COVID-19 positive cases, have been declared coronavirus free after the patients recovered, the state government said Sunday morning. The four districts are Kalahandi, Cuttack, Puri and Dhenkanal. Earlier a 51-year old woman from Dhenkanal and a person...

Bhubaneswar: Amid the spread of COVID-19 and extended lockdown in place to contain the deadly virus, people of Odisha celebrated Akshaya Tritiya without pomp and gaiety. With social distancing being the need of the hour, people are mostly keeping the celebrations confined to their homes....